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• Council for Excellence in Government -- a group of some 700 former top federal officials now in public or private service.  The Council produced "The Prune Book," a listing of the 34 most crucial jobs in staffing any administration; for each job there is a description of the background of incumbents who have held the job, job requirements, special skills necessary, etc. 
• Riggs's Constitutional Script for Harassing Presidents -- interesting perspective.
• A Bill Becomes A Law -- How our laws are made, by the parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1997.
• Enactment of a Law -- The legislative process from the Senate point of view, by the U.S. Senate parliamentarian, 1997.
• Public Affairs Video Archives -- from C-SPAN -- has schedules and other C-SPAN information.
• Federalist Papers -- may be a dead link.
• WWW.Policy.com -- highlights one issue per week, with extensive excerpts from relevant Internet documents.  Highly recommended for Washington and national perspectives.
• The University of Michigan's Documents Center has a nicely classified listing of federal documents, including the President, agencies, judicial branch, legislative, the budget, etc.
• Washington Post Links on the President's Budget

Impeachment of President Clinton 

• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- Harper's Weekly coverage of 1868 and the momentous events involving the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson by the Radical Republicans. Recommended.
• Clinton Investigation Documents -- from Time Magazine, every document and source on the crises of the Clinton Presidency. Recommended.
• Impeachment Process -- Impeachment documents from Cornell University Law School.
• The Washington Post -- "Clinton Accused" -- series of articles, including some not appearing in the print edition.  Recommended.

• "The Train that Wouldn't Stop" Sunday, 2/14/99, p. A1 -- best insider report I have seen
• E.J. Dionne, Jr.'s analysis "On to the Next Act" -- best account of what will happen next....and why it happened this way.

Legislative (Congress) 

• U.S. Congress -- U.S. Government Printing Office's Access program, with databases for congressional bills, documents, hearings, and more.
• Congressional Directory -- from the U.S. Government Printing Office's Access program.
• Interviews -- 90 interviews from Professor Richard F. Fenno of the University of Rochester, done between 1959 and 1965, all with members of the House re the appropriations process.  From the National Archives and Records Administration.
• Congress Link -- from the Dirksen Congressional Center, with basic information on Congress and special studies of campaign finance and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Albert Center -- The Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma, with links to its magazine Extensions and its archives. 
• Congressional Power -- from VoteSmart -- basics on the two houses of Congress, good set of links for other basic information. 
• Congressional Process -- a primer on how a bill becomes a law from Project VoteSmart. Recommended. 
• House Process -- excellent series of reports on the legislative process, all aspects, from the Congressional Research Service in the Library of Congress.  Recommended. 
• Congressional Leadership -- list of leadership positions with a one-liner on each job. No names. From Project VoteSmart. 
• House Committees -- official U.S. House site linking to each House committee.  Committe sites have bills, hearings, reports, etc. 
• Senate Committees -- official U.S. Senate site linking to each Senate committee.  Committee sites have bills, hearings, reports, etc. 
• Thomas -- legislative information, including bill search, etc.  From the Library of Congress. 
• Legis-Slate's Legislative Highlights -- on selected bills.  Comprehensive summaries, supporters, votes, etc. 
• Legislative Histories -- from the University of Michigan's Document Center, very comprehensive.  Everything you will need is here.  Recommended. 
• Legislation -- every possible source on the Congress, from the University of Michigan's Documents Center.  Strongly recommended. 
• Floor Activities This Week -- from Thomas at the Library of Congress. 

 

The Presidency 

• POTUS (Presidents of the United States Database) -- The Internet Public Library has a page for each President, complete with biography, list of cabinet members, and links to other biographical information, historical documents, other Internet resources, and points of interest.  Excellent source.  From the librarians at the School of Information at the University of Michigan.  Recommended. 
• The White House -- links to the executive branch, also White House documents -- press releases, speeches, etc.  Recommended. 
• Presidential Power -- Project VoteSmart's list of Presidential perks, powers, links to other sources. Recommended. 
• White House Sources -- the White House itself.
• Daily White House Briefing Room -- not only the daily briefing, but also the ability to search past press releases and federal statistics.
• Presidential Inaugural Addresses -- from Columbia University Bartleby Archive -- from George Washington to Bill Clinton; they're all here.  Recommended. 
• Presidential Materials -- Federal Government Resources, Executive Branch, from the University of Michigan www documents center.  Recommended.
• Presidential Agenda Setting in Congress -- paper by Profs. George C. Edwards III and Andrew Barrett presented at the 1998 American Political Science Association meetings in Boston, Labor Day weekend. 
• The Center for the Study of the Presidency -- comprehensive set of links on the Presidency and the current President.  Recommended. 

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